![]() ![]() The other subspecies is the nominate one: Esox americanus americanus it is officially named the redfin pickerel, it has red fins, and it does not occur in Missouri (it is found in rivers along the Atlantic coast, south to Georgia). ![]() The subspecies that occurs in Missouri is Esox americanus vermiculatus, officially called the grass pickerel. Similar species: There are two subspecies of Esox americanus. A dusky bar angles downward and slightly backward from the eye. The back and sides are olive or yellowish brown, sometimes uniformly colored, but often barred or mottled with a darker color. Like the chain pickerel, it has both the gill cover and the cheek fully scaled, with a row of 4 sensory pores along the undersurface of the jaw, but the snout is shorter than the chain pickerel’s, and the distance from tip of snout to center of eye is equal to or less than the distance from the center of the eye to the rear margin of the gill cover. Like other pikes, the grass pickerel has a duckbill-shaped snout, large mouth with many sharp teeth, and a single dorsal fin, which is similar in shape and size to the anal fin, and both are positioned far back, near the forked tail fin. ![]()
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